four.I'm a bit biased about this movie, as I grew up watching it almost everyday.
Vada Sultenfuss grows up in a funeral home with her widowed father and grandmother. She is very confused about death, continually coming up with new ailments that she believes she has contracted. Her best friend is Thomas J., and his death is something she struggles to both understand and cope with. It's a great story of first love and loss and the adolescent understanding of reality.
The film is direct, which is what makes it so easy to connect with. Vada, while eccentric, still forces [not unpleasantly] us to empathize and view the world with her. Her troubles to express her soul in creative writing doesn't translate into the actual film -- we embark on her journey with her and are fully immersed.
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